09 .- The Centers for Documentary Production and Research in Science and Technology: Introduction One of the main sources of scientific output from the scientific, research and documentary are the major research centers and consortia that develop under the auspices public and private funding for states and companies iniviativas or private. Thus becoming a center of resources and administration for the concentration specialists, scientists and researchers who carry out collaborative work, for the achievement and development of new developments and knowledge for dissemination and practical application. Given its dimensions allow means of action lines and policies and structuring scientific Invesiones a country dedicated to research and development. While not all the scientific production is reduced to such institutions, it does much of its work has an impact and effect on the overall development of scientific research in basic sciences and experimental.
As cited, the great centers research are a conglomeration of specialists trying to cover the various branches of knowledge or science that may be established subject categories. Put another way, how to organize research, depends on the departments in which they are formed, so that these structures are defined and demarcated in organization of such institutions. The existence of the departments has a direct relation to three key factors: 1) On one hand the interest in establishing research policies in a country or a private institution for scientific research in a very particular area, 2) second capacity of profitability economic and usefulness of the research carried out in this area, 3) finally, the availability of really qualified researchers to conduct such investigations, aims and objectives.
Results in many cases complicated the maintenance of these facilities investigation, taking into account and the amount of multidisciplinary science and knowledge areas to be covered to ensure smooth progress in all of them. Therefore, in many cases, research is divided and reduced to certain scientific disciplines in which the center is in a leading research position or theoretical-practical domain and technical or technological. Given this situation, careful planning is made that seeks a balance between profitability-Objectives-Outcomes-Research so that the investment was originally reverse multiplied in practical applications to better use and impact. An exception to this rule is the famous
MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), covering all areas of scientific knowledge and promote interdisciplinary collaboration of the best researchers worldwide to obtain the best scientific knowledge pointer.
However research centers main work, achieve a harmonious growth of knowledge through international scientific cooperation in diverse areas, by pooling human and technical resources to create real scientific focus groups that result in super-specialized research institutions. An example of this is the
CERN (CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research), in which nuclear physicists are the best place for the study of subatomic particles through instruments of high value and technological level of development and global cooperation and international as it turns out the familiar accelerator and Hadron Collider or LHC
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For major research centers and institutions articulate their work, studies and research in an efficient and agile, they require ongoing investment in documentation so that they can develop information and documentation departments, whether arising documentation centers , libraries or archives to facilitate the work of documentation and scientific researchers. The use of scientific information is only matched by its production. For this reason there are two essential key recovery information for any possible access point that identifies the document for users to quickly provision and on the other hand, the essential key to register and have all the news published by other research teams around the world working in parallel in the same areas of research to avoid duplication of research, duplication and costs of time and money involved.
This means that there is a great activity librarianship-documentary that is reflected in real catalogs and inventories of restricted-access public-private-quiet according to the policies of disseminating information from research centers. The documentation of the secondary type is usually transmitted by the so-called Current Awareness Services or service is the same for continuous updating of all the new literature-webibliográficas documentaries that take place in real time. This means that documentation centers and academic libraries have a mission to contribute selectively to each specialist the most current information from a variety of catalogs, databases, indexes and tertiary documentation available. This work was made possible by the provision of search and alert services that allow retrieval of information, directly and indirectly through such sources of information, ultimately obtaining information refined, and relevant reference to the location, quantity and quality of the available scientific literature, demanded by the researcher.
Consequently Research Center is considered a major center for the production of documentation in terms of services, information sources and research studies and publications generated in the discharge of their duties.
parameters for the analysis of research centers
Research Areas: should determine which areas of each site investigation work by the UNESCO classification system known, particularly in the methodology for the practical study of this subject. This is a standardized way of determining each specialty, allowing to distinguish the extent, degree of specialization and dimensions involved in their work compared to other centers. In the end also enable us to ascertain in advance that in such areas can be resources and specialized information sources, both from the standpoint of formal and informal, as well as type primary, secondary or tertiary, to a greater or lesser extent will be accessible network.
Document Services: are services, activities and processes common and specific to the Documentary Channel
documentation centers (Cataloging, Classification, Indexing, Abstract, emptying their magazines ...), but to highlight the following for their importance to the channel information Scientific:
- Consultation Service, Search and Information Retrieval for the researcher: Undoubtedly scientific information centers have specialized teams of filmmakers in the query and retrieval of information through catalogs, databases and codes themselves and others who have been employed to increase thematic coverage, documentary and geographical scientific publications. Being a super-specialized services to analyze the user's query and researcher is desfragentada minimal meaningful units in obtaining an expansion of the significance of the request for information. In this way, include such factors as the extent of the information, its bibliographic data, context, theme-qualifying coverage, temporal, chronological, bibliographical and descriptive to be refined and filtered on several searches through catalogs, databases and recovery systems and other specialized secondary literature and tertiary.
Outline specialized search process for the researcher.
- DSI S ervice warning bibliographical-documentary research: services for selective dissemination of information provide automatic alerts of new books and documentaries related to the field of scientific study by researcher the definition of thematic interest profiles, obtained from consultations and searches carried out by each user. The warning process begins with the updating of catalogs and codes of journal articles, databases, bibliographies with a frequency almost instantly reduced even insert new results from research and scientific activity. These publications are collected according to agreed criteria and theme-qualifying standard for the documentation center for dissemination among the various departments that make up the research institution. For this is done a user study, based on preference profiles, and publications that represent the lines of basic research, which can be defined and represented by third publications. Thus, retrieval and dissemination of new documentaries, is made by grouping or clustering, given the characteristics common to all publications that keep the same route or screening criteria.
- Publishing and Databases: Essential Job documentation centers active in research, compiling all the bibliographic and documentary production theory and practice of researchers and scientists. This requires the proper classification and standardization of publications so that their identifying features, descriptive, corpus or original content, results, -critical or critical apparatus are properly represented, argued and collected for documentation and dissemination through publications channels and secondary or tertiary to facilitate access. This section is common to find the following publications derived from scientific knowledge:
- Periodicals: Mainly scientific journals in the areas of leading research center. An important criterion for assessment is their presence in the impact factors, citations and international repertoires. For example, Science Citation Index , Latindex , ISI Web of Knowledge, Journal Citation Reports , etc.
- Repertoire of Periodicals: In addition to offering its own scientific journals , research centers often have directories, catalogs or indexes major journals in each area of \u200b\u200bknowledge consistent with their specialization research or study. The same way. Please note that not only has the link, link or bibliographic reference of the publications if not their impact factor, categorization and classification, licensing consultation and online access, literature alert service independent of specialized articles for each issue, so as to facilitate their treatment in literature management systems.
- Monographs and Manuals: correspond to studies of longer range as a result of theses, research projects and project execution planning for results, or the development of working guidelines, methodology, technical and testing of academic and scientific value-informative. Are series of monographs common thread which is a subject area in which the center is an expert researcher and pointer. For example, aquaculture monographic collections of ancient CINDOC.
- Databases: Depending on the number of publications, monographs, journals, newsletters, pre-prints and other gray literature, the documentation center under the research institute can create databases of local, global or international state to offer a wider dissemination to provide the free presentation and dissemination of science, as well as cooperation and development Sharing research with other experts in the world. In this way, it assists in the development of original content, avoiding the risk of duplication of future research. It also involves a method for unification of all types of documents produced by research, for its recovery block. In fact it is a common practice of cataloging and classification jointly by all the documentary material for later retrieval in a sorted and filtered according to the documentary style, his themes, chronology and even according to the research group at source corresponding information demanded.
- Repertoire Database: While a database or a global catalog of the scientific production of a research center, facilitating the dissemination of knowledge itself, it is necessary to generate global codes, complete and accurate in all databases possible data related to research policies and guidelines of the institution and its researchers and scientists. In fact, the systematic investigation of these sources, facilitate the direct-indirect retrieval of documentation and information requested by the user, expanding the queries that could initially be restricted only to a more localized. The result is a more complete, real or reliable, allows for all existing references in the world about a subject or object of study. Therefore, the researcher can build on a research basis for more reliable by reducing the risk of inventing what may have already been invented. For example reference is a must for any researcher searching the bibliographic databases CSIC like database summary ICYT science and technology.
- Request Service Documentary: Essential for replenishment and distribution scientific literature in the workplace as scientific and research department to which it belongs. In many cases this service has its digital-electronic extension that enables web access information from any point or location. Put another way, the natural history documentary service request is the scientific digital library in some schools like MIT Libraries being widely integrated into the service activity and dissemination of research service.
- Documentary Service Platform for Research: In many cases the information and documentation center prepared in cooperation with scientific research departments of each institution, authentic intranet services for the particular document management of research carried out in the various working groups. This adaptation of virtual workspaces are called documentaries platforms for research, whose most visible result known as the Scientific Information Portals. This means that a research center can consist of departments whose research groups generate specialized information portals, interdependent and subordinates under the global scientific output of the institution. A case in point is the distribution of research areas that underlie MIT's Research Laboratories in preparing joint research projects, grouped by working groups and research portals to virtual shaping interdisciplinary work that effected. For example, research portals dedicated to the development of industrial technology policy programs at MIT .
- Referral Service for Web resources. Directories. Scientific Information Portals: The information gathered through databases, directories of journals, collections of monographs, citation indexes, etc, is not always sufficient to provide a complete picture of all possible sources of information. In fact, there are codes of web resources and specialized directories, portals for scientific information (cited above), portfolios, blogs, formal and informal communities of researchers, associations or institutions and associates or related to the study center, etc.
